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Sports Medicine, Sports Performance, and Personal Training
We offer the full spectrum of sports medicine, sports performance, and personal training services through our Universal Sports Performance Department. Whether you are an elite level athlete unable to perform at your best due to an injury, or the average person suffering from pain, Universal Sports Performance will fully evaluate, diagno
se, and explain your condition to you. We will formulate a plan of care to allow you to best achieve your goals. Universal Sports Performance offers a full rehabilitation and physiotherapy program designed to progress you from the very beginning of injury care and basic rehab, all the way to a high level of function. You don’t have to be injured to train at Universal Sports Performance. All of the expertise used to care for our injured patients is even better utilized before an injury occurs. Injury prevention as well as personal health and fitness training, are a huge part of what we do here. Let’s face it, not all of us want to be elite level athletes. In fact, most of us just want to live a happy, healthy, and pain-free life. Many of you have tried various fitness programs with minimal results. Many of us have also been hurt or have pain with some of these exercise attempts. If you are tired of not getting the results you deserve, the customized personal training program at Universal Sports Performance is what you are looking for. Some of us are interested in “turning back the clock.” As we age our bodies change and become less toned. Through the correct exercise-training program, one can slow the progression of these processes and in many ways reverse them, making the body look and feel younger. Many of the degenerative processes that ail us as we age can be caused by poor movement mechanics and improper fitness strategies. By learning the correct way to condition your body as you age, you will be able to get the results you want without beating yourself up. Learning the value of health and fitness from a young age is extremely important. We offer a perfect program for younger athletes that focus on the mechanics of sport, and how to grow, develop, and train the correct way for years to come. While any athlete, whether competitive or recreational, can benefit from learning proper training and fitness technique, it is especially important to teach our younger athletes to stay safe as they grow and develop. “I wish someone could have taught me how to train properly when I was a young athlete!”
Universal Sports Performance offers many services including: Injury Evaluation, Rehabilitation, Physiotherapy, and Chiropractic Programs, Sports Performance Training Programs, Young Athlete Injury Prevention and Performance Enhancement Programs, Sports Physicals, Emergency Sporting Event Coverage, Sports Nutrition, Personal Training Programs, Anti-aging Fitness Programs, Health and Fitness Learning and Lecture Programs. Universal Sports Performance is lead by Dr. Donald Richardson, DC, DACBSP, CSCS. Dr. Richardson received his Bachelor of Science degree in human biology and biochemistry from the University of California Santa Barbara. He then continued his graduate and post-graduate education at Southern California University, receiving his doctorate in 2008. His passions for sports, science, and the human body lead him to pursue his post-graduate specialty degrees in sports medicine, biomechanics, rehabilitation, sports nutrition, strength and conditioning, and sports performance. Dr. Richardson has worked for the United States Olympic Committee with several different sports since 2008. During this time he has served as both a team doctor and strength and conditioning coach nationally and traveling internationally all over the world with our Olympic athletes. Dr. Richardson’s drive, determination, and expertise then led him to venture into creating his own private practice back in his hometown of Toluca Lake, CA. Universal Sports Performance Center is the culmination of all aspects of sports, health, and fitness “My unique combination of experiences has allowed me to create the ultimate training environment for people of all levels to achieve their goals, whether that is just getting back in shape to enjoy the life they want, or taking performance to the highest level.”